Why not?
It will have to be phased to keep the Left from screaming in agony and parading all them that "lost their superb plans" out to "prove" that trump hates the little folks.
The left are going to scream anyway. Once the repeal is announced then insurance companies are going to bail from the exchanges as fast as they can since there is no way they can make money without the Obamacare protections, so why delay the inevitable? We will almost certainly face 2018 without any coverage for those who were on Obamacare, and with whatever excuse for a replacement a year or two or three away. So why prolong the agony? Make a quick, clean break and let the market sort itself out. The short term pain will be more than offset by the long term gain of having the government out of the health care insurance business.
It will have to be phased to keep the Left from screaming in agony and parading all them that "lost their superb plans" out to "prove" that trump hates the little folks.
The left are going to scream anyway. Once the repeal is announced then insurance companies are going to bail from the exchanges as fast as they can since there is no way they can make money without the Obamacare protections, so why delay the inevitable? We will almost certainly face 2018 without any coverage for those who were on Obamacare, and with whatever excuse for a replacement a year or two or three away. So why prolong the agony? Make a quick, clean break and let the market sort itself out. The short term pain will be more than offset by the long term gain of having the government out of the health care insurance business.
You must already be set up so such a event wouldn't hurt you. The whys are basically the same reason why if they decided to cut Social Security by 90%, and didn't phase it in over some years, and making sure there wasn't a full brunt hit right off the bat, they would leave millions starving in the streets. Not that hard to grasp.